I had and still have the privilege of meeting Sri Satya Sai Baba, often during sleep. The story I'm about to tell happened several years ago, when my wife was 2000 km far away from our house.
At that time I was receiving frequent visit of Sai Baba during sleep, at morning I would excitedly comment it to my wife, but she, as an anarchist that she was, would skeptically reply:"Oh well, but it must have been just a dream, wasn't it"?
But I would answer: " Oh no, it was a -real- meeting, because He spoke to me about some personal issue".
This kind of conversation happened several times and any time I saw the beloved Master, till she went to Barcelona on visiting her parents.
Meanwhile I had read a book where the writer described one of Sai Baba disciple asking the Master to give him the darshan as Narasimha, the Avatar with lion head, and Sai Baba satisfying the wish of the disciple there and then, gave him the darshan as Narasimha leaving the disciple petrified on the spot the whole day standing as he was.
Then, in a childish manner me too expressed the wish to see Sai Baba under the terrible shape of the Lion Avatar.
One night while I was sleeping I see Sai Baba comfortably sitting on the sofa in my sitting room. I was so glad to meet again my beloved Master as God himself under a human shape.
Then He says " I have come to spend the night with you", meaning my wife and myself, I look over surprised towards the bedroom to see my wife too but she is not there, as I perfectly knew she was with her parents. When I turn again my eyes towards the divine Master is not Baba head that I see but that of a huge panther opening its terrible jaws just in front of me! I was so impressed that even in my vision I had my hair standing on end and trembling like a leaf!
Suddenly Baba recovered His human shape looking at me kindly with a smile on his lips, and suddenly my wife too was there. Baba had a conversation with both of us, then he took my wife to another room and spoke to her privately, then I had the sensation that my wife was not there anymore, in fact, Baba sits again on the sofa and have a conversation with me alone.
Next morning I was so excited that I went again and again on the whole vision several times, my heart was jumping with joy in my breast: Baba had answered my unspoken wish to see Him as Narasimha, even if it was a panther that I had seen and not a lion! When I recalled that terrible jaws I would still trembling like a leaf, all my hair standing on end!
Then I made up my mind that Baba said He had came to spend the night with "both of us", so surely my wife too must had seen Him though she was 2000 km far away, so I resolved to call her by phone straight away.
When she answered the phone was so excited that she didn't even answered to my hallo instead she straight away said to me: "Oh, I´m so excited -and she really was- you can't imagine -who- I´ve seen last night"!
"Well - I replied- as a matter of fact I perfectly know -who- you have seen"! ( I actually was not less surprised than she was).
"What? - She replied on her turn even more excited: How do -you- know who I´ve seen?! And so tell me: Who I´ve seen?
-You´ve seen Sai Baba don´t you?
She could hardly stand in her skin and over excited answered me:- But... but... how can -you- know I´ve seen Sai Baba?!
-Well, I replied, because last night me too have seen Him and He told me that He had come to spend the night "with us"! So I imagined that you too must have seen Him! That's why I called you, to find out whether you had actually seen Him!
She could not find words and only repeated: "Oh my God... oh my God"!
- Well, calm down and please tell me all of it!
She said: While I was sleeping I suddenly found myself among a large number of Sai Baba devotees, it was -so real-! Baba was slowly walking among us... at a certain moment Baba stop in front of me while looking steadily into my eyes without a single word! Oh, His eyes seemed to pierce my whole being! I couldn't take my eyes from his! Then after a while He left me continuing his slow walk among the devotees....
I myself was surprised because I was expecting my wife to meet Baba in our own house and yet it was not what I previously imagined.
-Now please, said her, what did -you- see last night?
I made her know in full details the visit I received, including the terrible jaws and my hair standing on end, explaining her that I had formulated the wish to see the divine Master under the form of Narasimha, and He had kindly -and terribly- satisfied my wish.
We had no words and for a while there was silence among us.
I felt she had calmed down and peace had showered down on her.
-Well, I continued breaking the silence, I guess from now on you will not answer me that when I see Baba during my sleep it is "just a dream"!
She didn't answer me, but I guessed she wouldn´t anymore... she at that moment must have been taken into some kind of deep devotion or an extasis from which could not recover. I repeatedly call her name but she just could not talk anymore, so I lowered down the phone and went my way still with my mind and my heart deeply concentrated on the beloved Master. I could just not make up my mind how Baba so far away in India had listened my silent wish to see Him under the terrible shape of Narasimha and the whole story, including the previous skeptical mood of my wife now changed into a deep surprise...
Time later our daughter came visiting me from Barcelona, she told me that my wife was regularly visiting a Sai Baba centre in that city and she had became a passionate devotee of the divine Master!
